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[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2938 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.2938

                     One Hundred Sixteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America

                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday,
           the third day of January, two thousand and nineteen

                                 An Act

 
 To exempt from the calculation of monthly income certain benefits paid 
  by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Honoring American Veterans in 
Extreme Need Act of 2019'' or the ``HAVEN Act''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF CURRENT MONTHLY INCOME.
    Section 101(10A) of title 11, United States Code, is amended by 
striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:
            ``(B)(i) includes any amount paid by any entity other than 
        the debtor (or in a joint case the debtor and the debtor's 
        spouse), on a regular basis for the household expenses of the 
        debtor or the debtor's dependents (and in a joint case the 
        debtor's spouse if not otherwise a dependent); and
            ``(ii) excludes--
                ``(I) benefits received under the Social Security Act 
            (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.);
                ``(II) payments to victims of war crimes or crimes 
            against humanity on account of their status as victims of 
            such crimes;
                ``(III) payments to victims of international terrorism 
            or domestic terrorism, as those terms are defined in 
            section 2331 of title 18, on account of their status as 
            victims of such terrorism; and
                ``(IV) any monthly compensation, pension, pay, annuity, 
            or allowance paid under title 10, 37, or 38 in connection 
            with a disability, combat-related injury or disability, or 
            death of a member of the uniformed services, except that 
            any retired pay excluded under this subclause shall include 
            retired pay paid under chapter 61 of title 10 only to the 
            extent that such retired pay exceeds the amount of retired 
            pay to which the debtor would otherwise be entitled if 
            retired under any provision of title 10 other than chapter 
            61 of that title.''.
SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.
    The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying 
with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be determined by 
reference to the latest statement titled ``Budgetary Effects of PAYGO 
Legislation'' for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional 
Record by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, provided that 
such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.
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